Sophia

Sophia was a girl of 10, daughter of Innocent Fan. She was killed on 10 June 1900 (old style; 23 June in the new), during the Boxer Rising. She was burned in the house of the priest Mitrophan.

In June 1900 proclamations were posted in the streets of Beijing calling for the killing of Christians and threatening with death anyone who sheltered them. Her name stands in the list of the 222 Orthodox Christians killed in 1900, drawn up in 1904 by the Brotherhood of the Orthodox Church in China, on the testimony of relatives, neighbours and witnesses.

In 1902 the Holy Synod of the Russian Church allowed the local veneration of the Chinese martyrs, and in 2016 its Council of Bishops blessed their veneration throughout the Russian Church. They are commemorated together on 11 June (old style).